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Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro
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Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro Escápite was a Mexican Army general who was shot dead in an incident in Mexico City. He had been incarcerated in the year 2000 for allegedly having ties with the Mexican criminal group known as the Juárez Cartel, Acosta was also accused of 143–500 disappearances during Mexicos Dirty War in the 1970s. Acosta Chaparro, son of the Mexican Army general Francisco Acosta Chaparro, was one of the most controversial men in Mexicos modern history. He was also one of the most ferocious persecutors of guerrilla groups during the presidencies of Luis Echeverría, in the year 2000, Acosta was accused for allegedly having ties with the drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes of the Juárez Cartel. On 1 November 2002, Acosta was sentenced to 16 and a half years in prison for protecting the Juárez Cartel. By the year 2005, a federal court annulled the declarations of the court that declared Acosta guilty of drug trafficking. But it was not until 2007 that a panel of judges overturned the drug trafficking allegations because his prosecutors failed to prove the alleged links to Carrillo Fuentes and he was later released after spending 6 years and 10 months in the military prison. Acostas general rank in the Mexican Army was given back to him after his release, Tarín Chávezs court testimony Tarín Chávezs testimony was read aloud through a microphone in court on the first days of November 2002. According to his declarations, one day Acosta Chaparro answered a call and heard the voice from the other line say. Tarín Chávez said that they only person that called him that was Amado Carrillo Fuentes, also known as El Señor de los Cielos, the leader of the Juárez Cartel. During the phone call, Carrillo Fuentes reportedly told Acosta that he had spoken with Rubén Figueroa Alcocer, the governor of Guerrero. There were declarations that Acosta planned the arrival of Colombian aircraft loaded with narcotics, Acostas logistic work allegedly involved the delivery of cars, money, and communication accessories to military officers who worked for Carrillo Fuentes. The regional military commanders of Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua were also accused of being on the payroll of the Juárez Cartel, a judge declared that Acosta was not responsible for the disappearances and dismissed the charges. Acosta was also in charge of a prison in Guerrero, where he reportedly tortured inmates who were involved in the guerrilla campaign, all of them were later released during the presidency of José López Portillo, after he granted them amnesty. In addition, Andrés Nájera, the president of the Eureka Committee in the state of Guerrero and he said, Out of the 600 that are currently disappeared, more than 200 of them had to do with general Acosta. Proceso magazine reported on 20 April 2012 that Acosta was allegedly involved in torture and flying airplanes, Francisco Quirós Hermosillo, who was accused of drug trafficking with Acosta, was believed to be involved in the disappearances too. International organizations like Amnesty International blamed Acosta Chaparro for the disappearances of the groups of the government of that time. During the 1970s, Acosta was in charge of the operations in the state of Guerrero

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Salvador Alvarado
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Salvador Alvarado Rubio served in the Mexican military during the Mexican Revolution and as a statesman. He was a general of the Constitutionalist Army under the orders of Venustiano Carranza, Alvarado was the Governor of Yucatán from February 1915 to November,1918. There is a Salvador Alvarado Municipality in the State of Sinaloa, Salvador Avarado was born on September 16,1880, in Culiacán, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa to Timoteo Alvarado and Antonia Rubio. His family moved to a yaqui pueblo, known as Pótam, as a young man, he moved to the port of Guaymas and worked in the pharmacy of Don Luis G. Dávila. He later moved to Cananea, where he opened his own pharmacy and worked for years as a pharmacist. In 1910 Alvarado joined the Anti-Reelectionist Party in Sonora, which had established by. Later that same year, he and other young idealists with revolutionary fervor attacked a military barracks in Hermosillo and their failed assault resulted in some of the rebels being executed and others, like Salvador Alvarado, escaped into Arizona. Alvarado was a widower when he came to Yucatán, after a lengthy courtship, he married Laura Manzano, a local young woman of modest means. He joined the army as a captain, fighting Porfirio Díaz. In February 1911, Madero and his forces attacked the city of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua and these victories led, in May 1911, to Porfírio Díazs resignation and exile. A peace treaty was signed, Madero and his troops marched into Mexico City, elections were held and in November,1911, northern Mexico at this time was in open rebellion. The conflicts kept Alvarado busy and he climbed the military ranks from Major to Lieutenant Colonel to Colonel. Madero sent General Victoriano Huerta in 1912, to quash their revolt and he quickly defeated Orozco, Alvarado fought alongside Huerta against Orozco and was promoted to the Chief of the Federal Auxiliary. Madero was attempting to balance between the Right and the Left, within days of the murder of Madero and Gonzalez, Venustiano Carranza took over as the revolutionary leader, calling himself First Chief of the Constitutionalist Forces. Maytorenas Yaqui generals Francisco Urbalejo and Jose Maria Acosta then stated they would shoot Alvarado if he led an attempt to remove Maytorena from office or command of his forces. In July, Alvarado was sent to the port of Guaymas, was captured and imprisoned in July by Maytorena and he made his way to join Carranza in the center of Mexico and was ordered to proceed to Puebla to organize the Constitutionalist troops of Puebla and Tlaxcala. On 8 July 1914, Huerta resigned his presidency and was succeeded by Francisco S. Carvajal, with the triumph of the constitutionalists, Carranza dispatched many of his officers to bring order and establish governments in various states. On 27 February 1915, Carranza named Alvarado Governor and military commander of Yucatán and his forces had little difficulty in putting down the rebel movement and by 19 March 1915, Alvarado had arrived in the capital of Mérida

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Hiram Bithorn
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Hiram Bithorn was a professional right-handed pitcher who became the first baseball player from Puerto Rico to play in Major League Baseball. The Bithorn family traveled frequently to the United States, maría taught her children English and at one time produced a radio program called Abuelita Borinqueña. The young Hiram attended Central High School in Santurce, and his two brothers,11 and 10 years his senior, encouraged and assisted in training him to become an athlete. By this time, he had begun making a name for himself in baseball in 1932. Bithorn played winter ball for his home team Senadores de San Juan, within three years, Bithorn was pitching at Wrigley Field. Bithorn was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in September 1941 and debuted in the Major Leagues on April 15,1942, during this time, he also formed the second Latin American pitcher-catcher combination along with Cuban Chico Hernández. After his second season, Bithorn fought for the United States military in World War II and his promising start, though, did not last once he returned from military service. By this moment his weight had risen to 225 pounds, which led to rumors that he may not have the same abilities, upon returning from the war, he returned to the Chicago Cubs, and went 6–5 in 1946. On January 25,1947 he was purchased by the Pittsburgh Pirates only to be waived later, on March 22 of the same year, the Chicago White Sox selected him off waivers but only pitched two innings, developing a sore arm that ended his career. At age 35, Bithorn tried to make a comeback in the Mexican Pacific League and he was shot by police officer Ambrosio Castillo Cano on December 28,1951 in El Mante, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Bithorn then was transferred to Ciudad Victorias hospital, where he died the next day, initially, officer Castillo Cano claimed that Bithorn was violent and also admitted to being part of a communist cell and that he was on an important mission. Eventually this argument was debunked in court and Castillo Cano was sentenced to eight years in prison for Bithorns murder. Bithorns achievement of making it to the majors remained a source of pride in Puerto Rico, in 2013 the World Baseball Classic Round 1, Pool C was played in the stadium, featuring Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Spain and Venezuela national teams

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Kiki Camarena
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Enrique S. Camarenas nickname was Kike in Spanish, and Kiki in English. From 1973–1975, Camarena served in the United States Marine Corps, after which he joined the DEA, at their Calexico, California, in 1977, Camarena moved to the agencys Fresno office, and in 1981, he was assigned to their Guadalajara office in Mexico. Camarena had also worked as a firefighter and police investigator before joining the DEA in Calexico. Camarena, who had identified as the source of the leak, was abducted in broad daylight on February 7,1985 by corrupt police officers working for drug lord Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. Camarena was tortured at Gallardos ranch over a 30-hour period, then murdered and his skull, jaw, nose, cheekbones and windpipe were crushed, his ribs were broken, and a hole was drilled into his head with a power drill. He had been injected with amphetamines and other drugs, most likely to ensure that he remained conscious while being tortured, Camarenas body was found in a rural area outside the small town of La Angostura, in the state of, on March 5,1985. Camarenas torture and murder prompted a reaction from the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration and launched Operation Leyenda. A special unit was dispatched to coordinate the investigation in Mexico, investigators soon identified Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and his two close associates, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero, as the primary suspects in the kidnapping. Under pressure from the U. S. A. to President Miguel de la Madrids government, Fonseca and Quintero were quickly apprehended, the United States government pursued a lengthy investigation of Camarenas murder. Despite vigorous protests from the Mexican government, Álvarez was brought to trial in Los Angeles in 1992, after presentation of the governments case, the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to support a guilty verdict, and charges were dropped. Álvarez subsequently initiated a suit against the U. S. government. The case eventually reached the U. S. Supreme Court, the four other defendants, Vásquez Velasco, Juan Ramón Matta-Ballesteros, Juan José Bernabé Ramírez, and Rubén Zuno Arce, were tried and found guilty of Camarenas kidnapping. Arce had known ties to corrupt Mexican officials, and Mexican officials were implicated in covering up the murder, Mexican police had destroyed evidence on Camarenas body. A CIA spokesman responded that “its ridiculous to suggest that the CIA had anything to do with the murder of a U. S. federal agent or the escape of his killer. ”Camarena received numerous awards while with the DEA, and he received the Administrators Award of Honor. In Fresno, the DEA hosts a golf tournament named after him. The nationwide annual Red Ribbon Week, which school children. In 2004, the Enrique S. Camarena Foundation was established in Camarenas memory, Camarenas wife Mika and son Enrique Jr. Camarena is survived by his wife Mika and their three sons. Several movies about Camarena were produced in Mexico, and he is referenced in others, in November 1988, TIME magazine featured Camarena on the cover

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Lorenzo Carranco
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Lorenzo José Carranco was a Jesuit missionary. Born in Cholulua in 1695, Carranco studied at Puebla and made his novitiate in Tepotzotlán, in 1725, he trained at Nuestra Senora del Pilar de la Paz Airapi in La Paz to take over at Misión de Santiago de los Coras Aiñiní. Briefly, he served as a missionary at Todos los Santos, in 1727, Carranco succeeded Father Ignacio Maria Napoli at Misión de Santiago. He was killed in the Rebelión de los pericúes at the Misión de Santiago by the Pericúes in a similar to Nicolás Tamaral

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Venustiano Carranza
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He secured power in Mexico, serving as head of state 1915-1917. With the promulgation of a new revolutionary Mexican Constitution of 1917, he was elected president, known as the Primer Jefe or First Chief of the Constitutionalists, Carranza was a shrewd politician rather than a military man. Maderos challenge to the Díaz regime in the 1910 elections and Maderos Plan de San Luis Potosí to nullify the elections and he was appointed governor of his home state of Coahuila by Madero. When Madero was murdered in February 1913, Carranza drew up the Plan de Guadalupe, Carranza became the leader of northern forces opposed to Huerta. He went on to lead the Constitutionalist faction to victory and become president of Mexico and he was far more conservative than either Southern peasant leader Emiliano Zapata or Northern revolutionary general Pancho Villa. Once firmly in power in Mexico, Carranza sought to eliminate his political rivals, Carranza won recognition from the United States, but took strongly nationalist positions. During his administration, the current constitution of Mexico was drafted and adopted, in the 1920 election, in which he could not succeed himself, he attempted to impose a virtually unknown, civilian politician, Ignacio Bonillas, as president of Mexico. Northern generals, who held power, rose up against Carranza under the Plan of Agua Prieta. Carranza was born in the town of Cuatro Ciénegas, in the state of Coahuila, in 1859, to an upper middle-class cattle-ranching family. His father, Jesús Carranza Neira, had been a rancher and mule driver until the time of the Reform War, in which he fought against the Indians, during the Franco-Mexican War, Jesús Carranza became a colonel and was Benito Juárezs main contact in Coahuila. There was a personal connection between the two, with Carranza lending Juárez money while Juárez was in exile. Following the ouster of the French, Juárez rewarded Carranza with land, because of his familys wealth, Venustiano, the eleventh of fifteen children, was able to attend excellent schools in Saltillo and Mexico City. Venustiano studied at the Ateneo Fuente, a famous Liberal school in Saltillo, in 1874, he went to the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria in Mexico City, where he had aspirations to be a doctor. Díazs troops defeated Lerdos, and Díaz and his armies marched into Mexico City in triumph, upon completion of his studies, Carranza returned to Coahuila to raise cattle, since he had an eye disease that prevented him becoming a doctor. He married Virginia Salinas in 1882, and the couple had two daughters, the Carranzas had high ambitions for Venustiano, who would use the family money to advance his political career. In 1887, at age 28, he became president of Cuatro Ciénegas. Carranza remained a Liberal who idolized Benito Juárez, at the same time, he grew disillusioned with the increasingly authoritarian character of the rule of Porfirio Díaz during this period. In 1893,300 Coahuila ranchers organized a resistance to oppose the re-election of Porfirio Díazs supporter José María Garza Galán as Governor of Coahuila

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Felipe Carrillo Puerto
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He was governor of the Mexican state of Yucatán from 1922 to 1924. His parents were the merchant Justiniano Pasos Carrillo Puerto and his wife Adelaide Solis and he was one of fourteen children, thirteen of whom lived into adulthood. Although his family were Spanish speakers, he grew up speaking Mayan. He was a socialist who favored land reform, womens suffrage and he obtained work on the local railways, joined the railway workers union, and married Isabel Palma. Carrillo Puerto then began publishing and editing the El Heraldo de Motul, arístegui was announced as the winner in what is generally considered to have been a fraudulent tally. In 1912, he went to work as a reporter and columnist for the periodical Revista de Mérida run by his friend, in February 1922 Felipe Carrillo Puerto took the oath of office and made his first speech as governor, and did so in the Mayan language. He promised to respect and enforce the Federal Constitution, as well as the adopted by the Workers Congress of Motul. During his 20 months as governor, Carrillo Puerto initiated land reform, confiscating large estates, in the first year of his administration 417 public schools were opened. As governor he founded the Universidad Nacional del Sureste, now called the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Carrillo Puerto was not a supporter of the Adolfo de la Huerta rebellion against President Alvaro Obregon, and General Plutarco Elias Calles. Felipe Carrillo Puerto was called the Red Dragon with the Eyes of Jade by his enemies, the movie Peregrina regarding his life was made in 1974 starring Antonio Aguilar. The towns of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Michoacan and Felipe Carrillo Puerto, reed, Alma M. Peregrina, Love and Death in Mexico. Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, Carrillo, Antonio Bustillos, Rosado, Esteban Durán. Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Los primeros congresos obreros de Yucatán, sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística. Departamento del Distrito Federal de México, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Actuación y muerte del apóstol rojo de los mayas. Mesa Directiva LVIII Legislatura H. Cámara de Diputados

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Lige Clarke
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Elijah Hadyn Lige Clarke was an American LGBT activist and journalist. Lilli Vincenz in the 1950s and then continued as the newsletter of the Washington D. C. The Homosexual Citizen, running in Screw magazine, was the first regular LGBT-interest column printed in a non-LGBT publication. As a result of the success of their column, Nichols and Clarke became known as the most famous gay couple in America—making them the first and only Super-Stars the gay community had ever known. In 1969, building on the success of the column, the two talked publisher Al Goldstein into publishing the first weekly national magazine called Gay. On February 10,1975, Clarke was shot and killed near Veracruz, Mexico while driving toward Veracruz with his traveling companion, for some reason, Black was only wounded while Lige Clarke was shot through the chest multiple times. A man had just died in the village and the priest, the priest yelled at the gunmen and scared them off. Lige was traveling from Cocoa Beach, Florida to Veracruz, Mexico in one of his many round-the-world adventures and he was traveling with a man named Charlie Black who he and Jack Nichols had met who worked for the United States Post Office in the Cocoa Beach Branch. Since Charlie owned a Ford Pinto and offered to drive, that was all the impetus that Lige seemed to need and he never found out the truth about what happened to Lige and why and it troubled him in his declining days. After Liges funeral in March 1975, Jack got a visit from Charlie Black who explained the circumstances of the murder, the circumstances he described did not match what Charlie had written to Shelbianna Rhein during his recovery. Almost a year after Liges murder, Jack received a postcard from Charlie dated January 18,1976 which read, Jack, I trapped a butterfly, I was blinded to its beauty as its wings struggled to escape. A ray of sun caught my eye and set the captive free, as it flew away it sprinkled its secrets on me. Jack wrote in his memoirs, What is Charlie trying to say, the card was postmarked San Francisco but no one has seen or heard from Charlie since. Jacks friend, Stephanie Donald, in one of many discussions with Nichols prior to his death in 2005, discussed Liges death, before Stonewall, Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context. Donald, Stephanie LGBT-Today. com Lige Clarke, body and soul

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Luis Donaldo Colosio
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Luis Donaldo Colosio-Murrieta was a Mexican politician, economist, and PRI presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana during the Mexican presidential campaign of 1994. He was the son of Luis Colosio Fernández and Ofelia Murrieta Armida García, Colosio-Murrieta studied at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, better known by its initials ITESM, after which he joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1972. In 1979, he joined the Ministry of Budget and Planning under future president Carlos Salinas de Gortari and he was elected to Congress as the federal deputy for his home town in 1985 and, in 1987, he was selected to serve on the PRIs National Executive Committee. In 1988, Carlos Salinas chose him as the manager for his presidential campaign. In the same election, Colosio was elected to the Senate, in the early years of Salinass presidency, Colosio served as the chairman of their partys National Executive Committee. In 1992, Salinas chose him to serve in his cabinet, in November 1993, the PRI announced that Colosio was to be its candidate for the upcoming presidential election. Like all the PRIs previous presidential candidates, he was greeted by large crowds throughout his presidential campaign, Salinas declaration was motivated by persistent rumours that highly visible Camacho would replace Colosio, who was not doing well in his campaign. Camacho let speculation grow for some time, but eventually declared he wouldnt run for office, the day after Camachos statement, Colosio was killed. Colosio collapsed, and was rushed to the citys main hospital. His death was announced a few later, amid contradicting eyewitness reports that remain to this day. The shooter, Mario Aburto Martínez, was arrested at the site, nonetheless, many theories still surround Colosios assassination. Colosio received three wounds, and it was never clear if they could have been done by a single person or not. The case was closed after many different prosecutors investigated it, but after the many mishandlings of the investigation and contradictory versions. Aburto remains imprisoned at the high-security La Palma facility in Almoloya de Juárez, on 18 November 1994, Diana Laura Riojas, the wife of Colosio, died while she was investigating on her own the murder of her husband, officially she died from pancreatic cancer. This stroke of luck for Zedillo, who would have never been a candidate under normal circumstances, eventually Ernesto Zedillo was elected president. Eight months after Colosios assassination, his wife, Laura Riojas, news magazine Proceso reported Colosios widows first words upon learning of her husbands assassination, Who did it. Two children, now cared for by relatives, survived, Colosios father continued determined to uncover what he strongly suspected are hidden truths behind his sons very public murder and, in 2004, he published a book about the case. Colosio, El asesinato, directed by Carlos Bolado, explored the aftermath of the assassination of the candidate and it notes that two investigations were conducted, and details the 15 associated people who were killed following the investigation, as well as widespread violence and unrest

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Henry Cooper (U.S. Senator)
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Henry Cooper was a Tennessee attorney, judge, and politician who served one term in the United States Senate, 1871–1877. Henry Cooper was born on August 22,1827 in Columbia and he had three brothers, including William Frierson Cooper, and two half-brothers, including Duncan Brown Cooper. Cooper attended Dixon Academy in Shelbyville, Tennessee, and was graduated from Jackson College in Jackson and he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1850. Cooper served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855 and he was appointed judge of the former 7th Judicial Circuit in April,1862. In January,1866 he resigned this position and moved to Lebanon, in 1867 he moved to Nashville, where he served in the Tennessee State Senate, 1869-1870. The Tennessee General Assembly elected him to the United States Senate for the term beginning March 4,1871 and he did not seek another term, and his Senate service ended on March 4,1877. By the early 1880s, he was engaged in mining operations in Tierra Blanca, Guadalupe y Calvo, Chihuahua, Cooper was murdered there by bandits on February 4,1884. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and this article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http, //bioguide. congress. gov

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Daniel Thomas Egerton
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Daniel Thomas Egerton, was a British landscape painter, Egerton was one of the original members of the Society of British Artists, where he exhibited in the years 1824 to 1829, and in 1838 to 1840. Having abandoned his family in England, Egerton returned to Mexico in 1841 with Alice Edwards and he and the eight-month pregnant Alice were murdered in the village of Tacubaya, Mexico, where they had rented a house, on 27 April 1842. Egerton was carrying large amounts of money, and both he and Alice were wearing jewelry which was untouched, although the murder was attributed to a robbery. British diplomatic pressure to solve the crime led to the arrest of three local petty thieves, two of whom were hanged, and one of whom was allowed to escape from prison. There has been speculation that Egertons alleged involvement in fraudulent land sales in Texas, his ties to a Masonic order, a painting of The Ravine of the Desert was sold at Christies New York in 2007 for $384,000. His painting The Valley of Mexico is in the British Government Art Collection

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Marcella Grace Eiler
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Marcella Sali Grace Eiler was an American social activist from Eugene, Oregon who was raped and murdered in Mexico two weeks before her 21st birthday. Eilers body was found on September 24,2008 near the Oaxaca town of San José del Pacifico, newspapers reported that after Mexico City resident Omar Yoguez Singu admitted that he had killed Eiler with a machete, citizens oversaw his delivery into police custody. He was found guilty of murder and is serving sentence in a Oaxacan prison

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La Fiera
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Arturo Casco Hernández was a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler who was best known under the ring name La Fiera, which is Spanish for The Beast. Hernández was a second generation wrestler, following in the footsteps of his father Hércules Poblano and his brother wrestled as Ángel Poblano. Fiera held the NWA World Welterweight Championship from October 23,1981 when he defeated Lizmark for the title until July 18,1982 when he lost the championship to Américo Rocca. He would later hold the NWA World Middleweight Championship, defeating Gran Hamada on November 18,1984, holding it until July 20,1985 when he lost the belt to Chamaco Valaguez. and Sangre Chicana. The team was forced to vacate the title in 1997 when Héctor Garza left the promotion, La Fiera had been in semi-retirement since the early 2000s. During this final period of his career he wrestled only on a few select dates a year and he died on September 12,2010 after being stabbed five times

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El Hijo de Cien Caras
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Eustacio Tacho Jiménez Ibarra was a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler better known by the ring name of El Hijo de Cien Caras. The name is Spanish for the Son of Cien Caras and he was not, however, related to wrestler Cien Caras, but instead paid Cien Caras for the rights to use the ring name, a practice not uncommon in Lucha Libre. He also wrestled under the names Frankenstein and Suplex, named after the monster, after Jiménezs brother Adolfo Tapia had become famous as La Parka, he decided to follow in his footsteps and become a professional wrestler. After being trained by his brother and El Salsero, Jiménez made his debut under a mask as Frankenstein, working for El Salseros promotion in Guadalupe, in 2001 he began wrestling under the ring name Suplex and acknowledged publicly that he was the brother of Adolfo Tapia. He worked as Suplex on the Mexican Independent circuit for four years without much success, in 2005 he bought the rights to use the ring name El Hijo de Cien Caras and took the ring character of the son of Cien Caras, teaming up with Cien Caras, Jr. Together the team known as Los Junior Dinamitas. On December 11, 2005Los Junior Dinamitas defeated Flash I and Flash II to win the Occidente Tag Team Championship on a show in Guadalajara, Los Junior Dinamitas held the Occidente Tag Team Championship for 546 days in total, making sporadic title defenses in that time. On May 31,2007 Hijo de Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000, Jr. defeated the team of El Pantera and El Felino to win the IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship. El Hijo de Cien Caras run as champion lasted under two weeks before losing the belts to the team of El Sagrado and Rayman on June 10,2007. Hijo de Cien Caras participated in the 2008 IWRG Rey del Ring tournament on July 24,2008 and was the 29th, on August 9,2009 Los Junior Dinamitas marathon reign ended when the team of Ricky Cruzz and Scorpio, Jr. Los Junior Dinamitas quickly came to the defense of IWRG, wrestling against Silver King and other AAA representatives such as Alex Koslov, Chessman and Cibernético. During AAAs Triplemanía XVIII Los Junior Dinamitas made a surprise appearance moments after Silver King and this marked the first time IWRG wrestlers appeared on AAA television. On June 20,2010 Máscara Año 2000, Jr. and El Hijo de Cien Caras defeated Los Piratos (Pirata Morgan, on November 14,2010, Los Junior Dinamitas lost the title back to Los Piratos. His family outside of wrestling included his brothers Ulises, Alejandro, Gabriel, despite using the name Son of Cien Caras he was not in any way related to Cien Caras, real name Carmelo Reyes González or the González wrestling family. Jiménez, like many other luchadores, kept his life a secret. In the early morning hours of November 29,2010, Jiménez was murdered in Coyoacán, paramedics pronounced both Jiménez and Luna dead at the scene. Jiménez was survived by his wife Maria Felix Rocha and his children Alan Eustace, Edgar Adolfo, Abraham and a newborn baby girl

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Benjamin LeBaron
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Benjamín Benji Franklin LeBaron Ray was an anti-crime activist and community leader in a Colonia LeBaron community, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico, who had founded the advocacy group SOS Chihuahua. LeBaron,32 and a citizen of both Mexico and the United States, was murdered along with his brother-in-law Luis Carlos Wiso Widmar Stubbs,29, on 7 July 2009, after LeBarons death, the movement has operated without a single figurehead. Mexico has strict gun control laws but began to train and supervise armed citizens patrols among the Chihuahua religious enclaves and this would be an extension of an existing program that trains members of remote Mexican indigenous tribes to man such patrols. Benjamin was killed on July 7,2009 by a drug cartel. Benjamin was captured and beaten by the cartel, which included 10 men, all armed and they terrorized the wife and children and took him outside. When one of his brothers-in-law, Luis Widmar, heard the commotion and they were both taken by the cartel and were later found beaten and shot to death outside of town. Mexican Drug War Timeline of the Mexican Drug War Home Invasion Kidnapping Langton, gangland, The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels from El Paso to Vancouver. Hoboken, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons

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Francisco I. Madero
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Francisco Indalesio Madero González was a Mexican statesman, writer, and revolutionary who served as the 33rd president of Mexico from 1911 until his assassination in 1913. He was an advocate for justice and democracy. Madero was notable for having challenged Mexican President Porfirio Díaz for the presidency in 1910, born into an extremely wealthy landowning family in northern Mexico, Madero was an unusual politician, who until he ran for president in the 1910 elections, had never held office. In his 1908 book entitled The Presidential Succession in 1910, Madero called on voters to prevent the sixth reelection of Porfirio Díaz and his vision would lay the foundation for a democratic, 20th-century Mexico, but without polarizing the social classes. To that effect, he bankrolled the Anti-Reelectionist Party and urged Mexicans to rise up against Díaz, following the resignation of Díaz from the presidency on 25 May 1911 after the signing of the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez, Madero became the highest political leader of the country. Known as Maderistas, Maderos followers referred to him as the de la Revolución. He was elected president on 15 October 1911 by almost 90% of the vote, sworn into office on 6 November 1911, he became one of Mexicos youngest elected presidents having just turned 38. Despite considerable popularity amongst the people, Maderos administration soon encountered opposition both from more radical revolutionaries and from remnants of the former regime, in February 1913, a military coup took place in the Mexican capital led by General Victoriano Huerta, the military commander of the city. Madero was arrested and a time later assassinated along with his Vice-President, José María Pino Suárez on 22 February 1913. He was born in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila, the first son of Francisco Ignacio Madero Hernández and Mercedes González Treviño and he was sickly as a child, and was small in stature as an adult. It is widely believed that Maderos middle initial, I, stood for Indalecio, civil War and built a diversified fortune. For many years, the family prospered during Porfirio Díazs regime, Evaristo married twice and had 14 children who lived to adulthood, including Francisco I. Madero, Sr. father of the future president, thus, young Francisco was a member of a huge and powerful northern Mexican family which had long-standing issues with the Díaz regime. Francisco and his brother Gustavo A. Madero were educated at the Jesuit college in Saltillo, instead, his fathers subscription to the magazine Revue Spirite awakened in the young Madero an interest in Spiritism, an offshoot of Spiritualism. As a young man, Maderos father sent him to the École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris. During his time in Paris, Madero made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Allan Kardec, the founder of Spiritism and he then attended high school at Culver Academies. Following business school, Madero traveled to the University of California, Berkeley to study agricultural techniques, during his time there, he was influenced by the Theosophist ideas of Annie Besant, which were prominent at nearby Stanford University. In 1893, the 20-year-old Madero returned to Mexico and assumed management of the Madero familys hacienda at San Pedro, well traveled and well educated, he was now in robust health

Bernardo Reyes (1850-1913), Porfirio Díaz's "man in the north". Carranza formed a personal friendship with Reyes, and Reyes' patronage was responsible for Carranza's election to the Mexican Congress in 1898.

Benito Juárez (1806–1872), President of Mexico 1858–1872. Madero founded the Benito Juárez Democratic Club in 1904. Madero believed that, as a medium, he was in contact with the spirit of Benito Juárez.

Undated photo of Emiliano Zapata (right) and his older brother Eufemio (left), dressed in the charro fashion of the countryside. Some posthumous artistic renderings of Zapata show him dressed as an ordinary peasant.

General Emiliano Zapata, posing in Cuernavaca 1911, with a rifle and sword, and a ceremonial sash across his chest. (Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City. Archivo Fotográfico Díaz, Delgado y García)